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A pride parade (also known as pride event, pride festival, pride march, or pride protest) is an event celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer social and self-acceptance, achievements, legal rights, and pride. The events sometimes also serve as demonstrations for legal rights such as same-sex marriage.
Kansas City celebrated the city’s LGBTQ community Saturday with the 47th Pride Parade. Viewers lined the streets while hundreds of parade participants started in the streets of Westport and made ...
Clockwise from top-left: Crowd attempts to impede police arrests outside the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969; the Gay Activists Alliance march during Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day in 1971 ...
Participants and parade-goers, some caked in makeup, sequins and rainbow flags, danced through the streets of Kansas City’s annual Pride Parade and festival Saturday.
HBT rally in Carmel, Haifa, Israel Native drum ceremony at pride festival opening, Bemidji, Minnesota. Pride Month occurs in the United States to commemorate the Stonewall riots, which occurred at the end of June 1969. As a result, many pride events are held during this month to recognize the impact LGBTQ people have had in the world.
The NYC Pride March is an annual event celebrating the LGBTQ community in New York City.The largest pride parade and the largest pride event in the world, the NYC Pride March attracts tens of thousands of participants and millions of sidewalk spectators each June, [4] [5] and carries spiritual and historical significance for the worldwide LGBTQIA+ community and its advocates.
Frédéric André Sargeant (born July 29, 1948) [1] is a French-American gay rights activist and a former lieutenant with the Stamford, Connecticut Police Department. [2] He participated in each of the nights of the 1969 Stonewall riots and was one of the four co-founders of the first NYC Pride March march in Manhattan in 1970.
1998: The event's attendance continued to grow through the years, hitting an estimated 14,000 people. 2004: More than 80,000 people attended the Pride parade in 2004 in Columbus, ranking it second ...